Google announced a new language called Noop today. It looks pretty interesting, building on the power of spring and most notably for them, building dependency injection right into the laungage. Here’s some of the highlights. As we look across the projects we are working on it’s clear how important Spring has become to our architectures. It’s nice to see a more formal recognition. It’s always neat to see the impact of ‘side projects’ at Google.

Just a couple of weeks after Amazon’s announcement of their private cloud offering it looks like Microsoft is starting to open discussions in that direction. What’s interesting about Microsoft’s discussion is that are coming at it from two directions. They are a provider to the data centers, hosting providers and enterprises building these offerings as well as a provider directly to the consumer.

Cnet reports today on how Vivek Kundra, the US Chief Information Officer (CIO), is pushing for more movement into the clould computing space to help save taxpayer dollars. There are definitely huge savings with clould computing and it’s getting harder and harder for enterprises to ignore. Especially with the recent announcement around Amazon’s Private Cloud, it seems like the enterprise barriers to adoption are slowly eroding away.

I did find Vivek’s assertion here, hard to believe,

_“Using a traditional approach to add scalability and flexibility, he said, it would have taken six months and cost the government $2.5 million a year. But by turning to a cloud computing approach, the upgrade took just a day and cost only $800,000 a year.”_

but not knowing all the details it might real. Six months down to one day, sounds too much like pixie dust to me!